Vacation On Syria’s Front Lines Goes Wrong For Russian Judge -- The Lede/New York Times
A Russian judge who decided to spend his vacation moonlighting as a war correspondent in Syria survived being shot in the face and arm this week in the Damascus suburb of Darayya, according to the Web news agency he writes for as a volunteer.
The shooting of the judge, Sergey Aleksandrovich Berezhnoy, was caught on video by the crew from the Abkhazian Network News Agency he was accompanying as it reported on a unit of the Syrian Army fighting rebel forces outside the capital. The ANNA video report shows him snapping photographs on a ruined street before the incident and includes graphic scenes from the emergency surgery in a Syrian military hospital that saved his life.
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My Comment: This smells like an intelligence gathering operation. I am only surprised that the Russians are so open about it.
I changed the plans because it wasn't really a big deal if I went this week or the next and it never hurts to have the CEO of the company in your debt. However, if my week-long vacation had been for my wedding, there would be pretty much nothing he could offer to make me willingly cancel those plans. Virginia Vacations
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